Abandon (album)
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| Studio album by Deep Purple | |||||
| Released | June 2, 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | 1997 to 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock | ||||
| Length | 57:07 | ||||
| Label | EMI (UK) CMC International (US) Aquarius (Canada) |
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| Producer | Deep Purple & Roger Glover |
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Abandon is an album by Deep Purple, recorded at Greg Rike Studios, Orlando, Florida, during 1997/98. Engineered by Darren Schneider. It was released in 1998. Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song -"Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here re-titled "Bludsucker"). The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan - "A Band On" - and the album was followed by the "A Band On Tour". "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release.
"Fingers to the Bone" is widely suspected to have been written about former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.[citation needed]
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, except where noted.
- "Any Fule Kno That" – 4:27
- "Almost Human" – 4:49
- "Don't Make Me Happy" – 4:45
- "Seventh Heaven" – 5:29
- "Watching the Sky" – 5:57
- "Fingers to the Bone" – 4:53
- "Jack Ruby" – 3:47
- "She Was" – 4:17
- "Whatsername" – 4:11
- "'69" – 5:13
- "Evil Louie" – 4:50
- "Bludsucker" – 4:29 (Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice)
[edit] Personnel
- Ian Gillan - vocals
- Steve Morse - guitar
- Roger Glover - bass
- Jon Lord - organ, keyboards
- Ian Paice - drums
